"Fathers and Sons" is the name of a novel by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian writer from the 19th century.
If it is allowed, no writers from other nations have yet been found who surpass the Russians.
It was there that the motif of conservative fathers and revolutionary sons appeared for the first time.
In the version of American culture, the formula is "liberal father-radical son".
The senior politicians of this season are, in one way or another, trailblazers.
President Yitzhak Herzog and Yair Lapid, if we continue with the images of great Russian literature, are heirs to political estates.
In Herzog's case, it is a wide and fertile estate where large crops have grown.
His father Chaim was a brilliant diplomat and president, whose son Yitzchak often mentions his involvement in the political system.
For Yair Lapid, it is walking in a groove similar to the one plowed before him by his father, Yosef Tomi Lapid.
It's not a mansion, but more of an inherited shop or restaurant.
A father's past, a son's consciousness
Lapid the elder was a senior journalist at "Maariv", and over the years became a businessman on the right side of the map.
He was CEO of the Broadcasting Authority for about five years, during which he enforced the ban on conducting interviews with PLO representatives and ousted TV CEO Arnon Zuckerman.
Before that, as a journalist, he fought to the bitter end against Ram Levy's film "Kharbat Hiza" and its broadcast on television.
He claimed that in the television version of S. Yizhar's story, associations were emphasized between the IDF soldiers in '48 and the SS gangs in the Holocaust. In the same spirit, he wrote an article in the 1970s that was a sort of allegorical story, in which he compared Adolf Eichmann to Audi Adib.
Lapid the son calls in the name of the values of freedom of speech, but does not mean it.
In the era of commercial television, Tommy Lapid is remembered as one of the fathers of television populism.
He was a regular participant in a program called Popolitica.
Yair Lapid and his father Tommy, photo: Moshe Shay
As the Minister of Justice, he shouted from the podium of the Knesset: "You, how do you do such a thing? Does democracy not happen to you? Do you want officials to dismiss governments? Do you want officials to fire prime ministers? You want to entrust the ombudsman with the absolute exclusive authority to dismiss A prime minister and the removal of a government?". Son Yair Lapid, as is known, practices the opposite of this. His indictment is in the category of the Holy Scriptures.
Tommy Lapid was a Holocaust survivor.
There is no doubt that it permeated the consciousness of Ben Yair, but he does not seem to have learned a lesson from the Holocaust, but rather uses it as decoration in political meetings such as with the German Chancellor, or for the purpose of initiating a crisis with the Poles.
For him, anti-Semitism became an issue divided equally between massacres in Africa and hatred of Israel in the West and the East.
In the case of Benjamin Netanyahu, his father Bentzion bequeathed him an estate which is an idea.
The distance between the figure of the father, who even in the 21st century is still living his and his friends' debates with Chaim Weizmann or with David Ben-Gurion, and the son Binyamin, as well as his two other sons Yoni and Ado - is enormous, and sometimes awe-inspiring.
Each and his weapon
Benzion did not shoot the rifle, but held it a few times in the 1930s.
His militancy was expressed in writing.
Benjamin was a combat fighter in modern Israel.
He inherited a national view of problems.
But his perception also added to the legacy of the historian father the foundation of the economy in the combination of modern American conservatism, as expressed by Ronald Reagan.
He combines ideas of Jabotinsky with radicalism in the style of Abba Acheimair and a vision of proactive and independent action in the style of Aharen Aharenson.
This is a great legacy but is set aside out of disgust by the left, which identifies it well behind the popular nationalism of the Likud.
what did you learn from dad
President Herzog occasionally mentions his father Chaim's willingness to jump headfirst into the political quagmire to save the drowning leaders.
Herzog Sr. did this three times: the first - when he pushed for the unity government in 1984, including the idea of rotation.
He is the one who butted heads between Shamir and Shimon Peres.
Yitzhak Herzog and his father Haim, photo: Moshe Shay
A second time - when he released the legal-political-security plot of the Line 300 case/the Shin Bet case. Yitzhak Herzog claims that his father "saved the Shin Bet".
And third - the amnesties for the prisoners of the Jewish underground.
President Yitzhak Herzog is proud of this contribution of his father to social stability, and he signals that he will try to push for similar political solutions.
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